Entrance Ticket

Do you think people can achieve their

dreams? How?
What prevents a person from doing so? Give
specific examples!

January 29th, 2015

Essential Question: Why is a Dream
Deferred?
Agenda: 1) ET 2) Unit Essential Questions 2)
Vocab 3) Dream Deferred by Langston
Hughes 5) Exit Ticket

Homework: Read Excerpts from To be

young, gifted, and black and annotate

Unit 4: Raisin in the Sun

Essential Questions:
1. What is the American Dream, and who has
access to it?
2. How can our dreams sustain, define, or even
destroy us?
3. What happens to a dream deferred?

Dream Deferred by Langston

Hughes
Read the poem.
Identify the 6 ways a dream is deferred or
delayed.

Narrating: A Dream Deferred

Choose one of the 6 ways a dream is
deferred.
Imagine a story that narrates the life of a
person whose dream was deferred in that
way
If you have time, pair your story with an
illustration

Sharing!

Connection to Raisin in the Sun

Both Langston Hughes "Harlem (A Dream Deferred)" and
Lorraine Hansberrys "A Raisin in the Sun" illustrate the
effect of racism on African-Americans economically and
psychologically. Both center around dreams and the limited
opportunities that result from an unequal, oppressive
society. Hansberry took the title for her play from Hughes
poem.

Exit Ticket
Choose one our units essential questions to
develop into a full paragraph.